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Novelist Graeme Macrae Burnet on Johnny Cash

In a lonely Highlands house, a Scottish author cues up a dark song

Oct. 24, 2017 1:05 p.m. ET

Graeme Macrae Burnet, 50, is the Scottish author of “The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau” and “His Bloody Project,” which was a Man Booker Prize nominee. His latest is “The Accident on the A35” (Arcade). He spoke with Marc Myers.

Country music is massively popular in western Scotland. The melodies relate to Celtic music, and the people who...